Non-foaming measuring-cup



A. I. RISSER. NoN-FOAMING MEASURING CUP. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6, 1920.

1,385,495, PatentedJu1y26`,1921.

IIIIIII IIHHIHI Iao .UNITED STA ARTHUR I. RISSER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO U; S. BOTTLER-S MACHINERY CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OFILLINOIS.

NoN-EoAi/LING MEAsURING-CUP.

Application ledfOctober 6, 1920.- Serial No. 415,008.

T 0 all 10h-0m t may concern citizen of the United States', residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Non-Foaming Measuring-Cups, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for automatically filling bottles with fa definite predetermined measured One such machine is shown infmy prior United States Patent 1,360,028,` dated N ovember 23, 1920.

The object of the invention isto provide meansfor filling a measuring cup intended to deliverrliquid to va bottle without allow# ing the liquid to foam in the cup, thereby preventing inaccuracy on the partwof the cup in delivering the predetermined amount of real liquid material into the bottle.

The invention consists in means for carrying out the foregoing objects lwhich can be easily and cheaply made, which is satisfactoryv in use and not'readily liable to get out of order. More particularly theik invention consists in means so directing the liquid that it passes upwardv alll around the cup and thence over the upper edge in a thin stream from which practically all foam is removed. More particularly, the invention consistsin means and features of details hereafter more fully set forth in the specification and` claims.

Referring to the drawings in which similar numerals represent the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a cup filling mechanism of a machine of the type of said prior application, having the mechanism of this invention applied thereto.

Fig.v 2 is a changed position view of the central portion of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the central parts shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a plan view on the line Llc-4: of Fig. 3.

As fully set forth in said `prior patent application, 10 is a stationary plate from whichv a liquid displacing block 12 is suspended by rods 14; and from which is also slidably suspended a valve rod 16.

Inclosing the parts just described and vertically reciprocatable with reference thereto by means fully shown in saidprior applica- Specification of Letters Patent. Y Patented quantity of liquid.l

July 2,6, 1921.

ltion is a liquid supply tank 18, perforated to receive the stem 19 of a measuring cup'20, screw threaded to place at 22 and locked by a nut 28.V The .lower end of this cup device terminates in a nozzle 24 having a central perforation 26 generally closed by valve rod 16, as set forth in said prior application. The law of the machine is such that with-the parts in the position of Fig. 1 the liquid 28 1n tank 18 is raised, by the presence of block 12,to a sufficient height so that it flows over the upper edge 28 of the cup and fills it and `that with the parts in they position of Fig.

3 this fiow ceases, leaving the cup full until valve 16-26 opens and lets the liquid flow vinto the bottle, leaving the parts appearing ytubebeing of sufliciently large interior diameter so that, infcombination with vertically placed ribs 3401i the sides ofthe cup, parallel vertical passages 36 are formed leading from ports 38 formed in the base of'tube 32 up to the upper edge of the cup.

rI`he result of this construction is that as the tank 18 and attached parts move from the position of Fig. 2 to that of Fig. 1 the liquid in the tank outside the tube 82 passes through the ports 38 and up the passages 36 in comparatively thin wide streams from which the foam producing gas readily escapes as the liquid reaches and passes over the edge 28 of the cup with the result that the liquid in cup 20 proper is solid, placid and without foam, whereby an accurately measured amount of liquid passes down through nozzle 26 into the bottle when, after the cup 32 is filled, the valve 16 opens passage 26, as fully set forth in said prior application.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 2. In mechanism of the class described, an open mouthed cup and stationary means around the cup providing a passage, narrow with reference to the cup diameter leading from points below the edge of the cup upward to the edge of the cup, for the purposes set forth.

3; In mechanism of the class described, an open mouthed cupand stationary means around the cup providing a plurality of separated passages from points below the edgeof the cup upward 'to the edge of the cup, opening at the cup edge inslots of substantial width along the cup edge, for the purposes set forth.

4:. In mechanism of the class described, an open mouthed cup and stationary means around the cup providing a pjlurality of separated passages, narrow, with reference to the cup diameter', from points below the edge of the cup upward to the edge of the cup, opening at the cup edge in slots of substantial width along the cup edge, for the :purposes set forth. 25

cup open at its top vertical ribs spaced one 5. In mechanism of the class described, a

from the other on the outside of the cup, and a tube inclosing the ribs to make the spaces' between them passages for liquid,

therebeing in the lower portion of the tube perforations one vfor each such passages, for the purposes set forth.

6. In mechanism of the class described, a

tank, a'cup, in the tank, open at its top and provided with a vdischarge port, stationary means around the cup forming la passage earrylng liquidy from a point in the tank below the cup edge upward lto the cup edge, and means for selectively causing liquid to so flow.

7. In mechanism of the class described, a. tank, a cup in the tank, open at its top and provided with a discharge port, stationary means around the cup forming a passage carrying liquid from a pointin the tank below .the cup edge and upward tothe cup edge, reciprocatable means for selectively causing liquid to sol flow.

In mechanism of the class described, a tank, a cup in the tank, open atits top and provided with a discharge port, stationary means around the cup forming passages carrying liquid from points 'in yth'e'tank below the cup edge upward yto the cup edge in a Qlurality of separated streams disposed along the cup edge, and means forselectively causing liquid to so flow. o i

9. In mechanism of the class described, a tank, a cup in the tank, open at its top-"and provided with a discharge port,'stationary means around the cup 'forming passages narrow with reference to the diameter of the cupV and broad along its. circumference, carrying liquid from points in the tank below the cup edge upward to the cup edge, in a plurality of separated streams disposed along the cup edge, and means forV selectively causing liquid to so'flow. g In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence'iof a witness. Y q Y v ARTHUR I. RISSER. A Witness: Y'

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